Show PACTS FACTS ABO ABOUT PRESIDENTS PRESIDENTS New York World WOid We e h have ve had presidents up to date and If M Bryan is do de def f rented we ave shall shaH not have our twenty fifth untIl 1905 Hitherto presidents re nominated by y their parties have usually been ree reelected The four were John Toh Adams defeated for reelection tion by Thomas Jefferson in 1800 ex exactly a century ago Martin Van Buren Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Har Harrison Harrison rison Mr fr Bryans success would in indeed indeed deed break many pre presidential prece precedents precedents dents He comes from the west a section that has never before supplied a president He was born in IllinoIs the birthplace of no president so far elected He would be beth bethe th the yo youngest man ever chosen as pres president president ident Our oldest president at the time of I his Inauguration on was William Henry Harrison 68 Buchanan was 66 Taylor 65 John Adams and Jackson were each 62 and all the others were In their except Pierce 49 Grant 47 and Cleveland Cleeland 48 Grant was our youngest president on the day of his first inauguration The birthplaces of our presidents are divided among the states as follows Six have haye come from Virginia five from Ohio three from New York two each from Massachusetts an and North Car Carolina olina and one each from New Jersey Kentucky New Nest Hampshire nt Pennsylvania and Tennessee As to the Christian names of our I presidents there have been four James three Johns two Andrews two Williams and one George Thomas Zachary Millard Franklin Abraham Ulysses Rutherford Chester Grover and Benjamin Fourteen of them had no middle names and none of them was named in honor of any previous nta fact which shows how sadly futile it is to name a baby babyboy babyboy boy after a president in the hope that he also may grow up and get there All our presidents have been married I men at the time of their election save Buren Buchanan and I Cleveland Washington was the first president to die and the only one to die in the eighteenth century At his death Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe the second Adams Jackson Van Buren the first HarrIson Tyler Polk Taylor and Buch Buchanan nan were all livIng Among the curious of the presidential office we may mention the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the same 4 1826 In no subsequent year have two presidents presidents dents died Grant and Hayes were the only two presidents born In the same year Garfield was born in the same sameea year ea that Monroe died None of our presidents has died out of the country countr though Tyler died at Richmond while Virginia considered herself out of the Union Only one president John Adams has had a son elected to the theoffice theoffice office and only one William Henry HarrIson has had a grandson chosen to fill It Only two are are now living Grover Groyer Cleveland and Benjamin Har Harrison Harrison rison The graves of theIr predecessors are as widely separated as the states that gave them birth hirth An All of our do de departed parted presidents lived lied to a good old age except Garfield and Lincoln who were assassinated Eleven of them lived well on into the while John Adams lived to be Madison to be 85 I Jefferson 83 ani Van an Buren 80 A curIous fact su of the youth of our country is that hat our president president dent John QuIncy Adams who died in 1848 pers persOnally knew every president who prec preceded ded well as two who followed him and d might have seen if I he had been gifted with foreknowledge and had cared to take the journey aU all the presidents who have succeeded hIm t to th the present time Including Mr McKinley Mc McKinley Kinley |